4 Top Tools for Effective Team Collaboration in the Workplace

Each of your employees brings something different to the table. Individually, they have a diverse background, education, skill set, and experience that makes them an asset to your organization. Collectively, however, they can become a team that can work more efficiently to meeting and even exceeding company goals.  Be that as it may, effective team…

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An Anti-Bucket List is Full of Achievable Goals

My Anti-Bucket List (21 NOs!) Having a bucket list sounds like an enterprising thing to do. And it is. To me, bucket lists serve the purpose of helping us have experiences we think will make our lives more memorable. Life is relatively short and unpredictable. No one knows exactly what will happen next – whether…

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How to Create an Employee Performance Review System

Giving performance reviews to your employees is an essential part of running a business. However, it is something managers and employees dread the most. Why? For the manager, it feels like it’s just another item on the to-do list. Only two out of ten employees feel their performance is managed to motivate them to do great…

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3 Big Factors to Improve Your SEO

SEO, or Search Engine Optimization, is a tool that you can use to improve your internet search rankings when potential customers are looking for a service or product you may offer. Another added benefit of improving the rankings for your business is to increase the traffic for your site.  When people need to learn or…

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The Smart Way to Manage Business Debt

Much of how I feel about when and where to borrow I learned working with my Dad in his small business as a young man. My views are pretty conservative when you consider that popular media would have us all believe that money is the answer to every small business challenge. I just don’t believe…

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Don’t Ignore These 7 Essential International Business Customs

Plenty of businesses and business persons have made a blunder from time-to-time. They range from Ratner who called his own jewelry line “Sh*t” on live TV and bankrupted his business, to the Mission Impossible 3 makers who put a small box in newspapers that played the Mission Impossible theme tune. People around the US mistakenly…

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5 Essential Tips to Manage a PR Crisis  

Every business is vulnerable to a PR crisis or issues that are impossible to predict. The current pandemic is an obvious example, but even in “normal” times, crisis management can be needed for issues as wide-ranging as staff caught in criminal acts, financial worries, customer service complaints or emergencies such as fire and flood. Crisis…

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4 Steps to Setting Up A Safe And Secure Home Office

2020 might go down in history as the year we all switched to working from home. Who knew that before a global pandemic, we could have all been sitting in our pyjamas from the comfort of our living rooms, completing the same work we do from an office. Ok, perhaps that’s a bit of an…

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